Those suspected of assisting Tom Phillips to evade the law are yet to be charged by police, more than six months after the armed fugitive dad was shot dead ...

Commissioner criticises how access for a doco crew was handled by police following the release of texts sent in the aftermath ...

Police investigating how a father hid his children from the world for almost four years in dense New Zealand wilderness have released new images of two makeshift camps where they believe the family ...

For nearly four years, New Zealanders wondered how a father and his three children could simply vanish into the bush. The disappearance of Marokopa resident Tom Phillips with Jayda, Maverick, and ...

The parents of fugitive Tom Philips, who was fatally shot by police last month, have apologised to the community for their son’s actions. In a letter to the community, published in the King Country ...

The New Zealand government has launched a public inquiry into the case of Tom Phillips, who disappeared with his three children into a remote forest for years. The country’s Attorney-General Judith ...

Yesterday’s announcement of a public inquiry into the handling of the Tom Phillips case was inevitable. When children go missing for years, the public has a right to understand whether the agencies ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New photos, released by New Zealand Police on October 24, 2025, show the living conditions at two key campsites used by Tom ...